How to Use donkey in a Sentence

donkey

noun
  • The donkey has a lot of singing.
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The donkey has a lot of singing.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Just throw in some ogre and donkey ears, and you’re set.
    — James Factora, Them., 17 Oct. 2025
  • This donkey has one very big clue hidden in its ear.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Or what jobs a group of renegade donkeys may choose.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The donkey did eat from his hand at one point, the woman said.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The public got tired of it (and that donkey stunt didn’t air).
    — Ben Smith, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2020
  • There are some days, though, that the donkeys are better!
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2026
  • My donkey looked at me with those enormous eyes of his and didn’t say a word.
    — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The film is told from the donkey’s point of view and even the music helps do that.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Their sounds—peeps, moans, and donkey-like brays—bounce off the mountains.
    — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 June 2019
  • The mule is a hybrid; a cross between a male donkey and a mare.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 26 Dec. 2020
  • The donkey dangled on a leather strap, it was meant as a necklace.
    — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021
  • After the deputy left the call, Hayes shot and killed the donkey.
    — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
  • My father mistakes it for the verb to bray, like a donkey.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The thing is, having donkeys is a lot like having dogs or cats or kids.
    — Sheila Stroup, NOLA.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • There were donkeys to feed and cows to breed and plenty of cleaning to get done.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2023
  • One path is through mating, just as the horse and donkey mate to create a mule.
    — Antonis Rokas, The Conversation, 4 June 2020
  • Giving a donkey some bread will treat whooping cough.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Every donkey on the ranch, 97 of them, would have been killed.
    — CBS News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • There were cow, sheep, buffalo, camel and donkey milk cheeses.
    — Barry Neild, CNN Money, 13 Nov. 2025
  • Ibrahim jumps off the donkey cart, picks up a stick, and ties a white undershirt to it.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Trump is like the proverbial taking a two-by-four to the side of the head of a donkey.
    — WSJ, 9 Jan. 2017
  • But at least the donkey riding seems to be going more smoothly.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
  • But at least the donkey riding seems to be going more smoothly.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
  • While the donkeys adjust to their new home, zoo-goers will be able to see, but not touch, them.
    — Anne Dunlap, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 May 2018
  • On Friday, patients took the five donkeys for a walk and cared for them.
    — ABC News, 31 May 2026
  • Last summer, at least six donkeys were injured when they were shot by arrows.
    — Joy Benedict, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The name of the estate, by the way, translates as domaine of the two donkeys.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Magic pebbles are all well and good — so are donkeys — but tools of the trade are right up there, too.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019

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